What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

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

Methods are the masters of masters.

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