A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we want to fully develop the effects they can produce.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.

There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.

We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.