I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

The people we have employed in an undertaking that has turned out badly should be doubly rewarded.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

What is the strongest cure?--Victory.

In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.