Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

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

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

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Nothing succeeds so well as success.