To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love.

Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.