The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.

There are no eyes so sharp as the eyes of hatred.

Many persons feel art, some understand it; but few both feel and understand it.

Nothing is more binding than the friendship of companions-in-arms.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.

Ambition is not a weakness unless it be disproportioned to the capacity. To have more ambition than ability is to be at once weak and unhappy.