Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.

The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.

Nothing but courage can guide life.

Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.

Those who fear men like laws.

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.