When an idea is not robust enough to stand expression in simple terms, it is a sign that it should be rejected.

A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.

Everyone is born sincere and dies deceivers.

We can console ourselves for not having great talents as we console ourselves for not having great places. We can be above both in our hearts.

Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.

If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.