Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.