Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine mission.

Time, O my friend, is money! Time wasted can never conduce to money well managed.

People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.

Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.