No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.

The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.

We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.