Live as if you were eternal.

Advice is always a confession.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...

A friend loves you for your intelligence, a mistress for your charm, but your family's love is unreasoning; you were born into it and are of its flesh and blood. Nevertheless it can irritate you more than any group of people in the world.

The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.