There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.