The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.

The idle always have a mind to do something.

If passion sometimes counsels greater boldness than does reflection, it gives more strength to execute it.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.

No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.

If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.