To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies.

There are many roads to success, but only one sure road to failure; and that is to try to please everyone else.

To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.

Nothing great comes without enthusiasm.

Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.