One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be idiocy because it has been able to appeal to the majority

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

She commands who is blest with indifference.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

Remorse turns us against ourselves.