The man who believes he can do it is probably right.

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

He who has no passion has no principal or motive to act.

When a miser contents himself with giving nothing, and saving what he has got, and is in other respects guilty of no injustice, he is, perhaps, of all bad men the least injurious to society; the evil he does is properly nothing more than the omission of the good he might do. If, of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested, it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

Discipline is, in a manner, nothing else but the art of inspiring the soldiers with greater fear of their officers than of the enemy. This fear has often the effect of courage: but it cannot prevail against the fierce and obstinate valor of people animated by fanaticism, or warm love of their country.

A man who believes that he eats his God we do not call mad; yet, a man who says he is Jesus Christ, we call mad.