If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones.

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.