Education made us what we are.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Envy honors the dead in order to insult the living.

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

To be loved, we should merit but little esteem; all superiority attracts awe and aversion.

Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.