I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him from us; our sight breaks and is dissipated by it being filled and arrested by this strong light.

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.

The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.