He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor

Opportunities? I make opportunities.

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.