Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

At court one becomes a sort of human ant eater, and learns to catch one's prey by one's tongue.

Genius has no brother.

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.