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

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

There are no small steps in great affairs.

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.

Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.

What is necessary is never a risk.

A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.