A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.

In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.