It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.

The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.

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.

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.

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

The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.