I do not like giving advice: it is incurring an unnecessary responsibility.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Through persistence numerous individuals win accomplishment out of what appeared bound to be sure disappointment.