Friendship is but a name. I love no one.

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.