The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.

I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.

Love can do much, but duty more.

Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.

So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.