More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

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.

Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!