If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot therefore maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

All humanity is passion without passion religion history novels art would be ineffectual.