Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Men can do all things if they will.
Men expect too much, do too little.
Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Men should strive to think much and know little.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.
Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.