Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.