Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.

He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.

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.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

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