Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

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

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

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

Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.