No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.

Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.

Now comes the mystery.

Good-humor makes all things tolerable