Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.

Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond.

Heaven's help is better than early rising.

Necessity urges desperate measures.

Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

One of the most considerable advantages the great have over their inferiors is to have servants as good as themselves.