It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

What is necessary is never a risk.

She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.

Weakness has many stages. There is a difference between feebleness by the impotency of the will, of the will to the resolution, of the resolution to the choice of means, of the choice of the means to the application.

Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.

Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.