Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body; which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.

All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.