A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.

Great passions are incurable diseases.