All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.

honesty dies in selling itself.

Every historian discloses a new horizon.

The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves.

When they are among us cats are angels

One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.