As a rule it is circumstances that make men.
A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.
Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.
It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.