To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.

The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.

Ambition is not a vice of little people.