I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed

The doctrine of equality! There exists no more poisonous poison: for it seems to be preached by justice itself, while it is the end of justice.

The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.