To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.

Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.

Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.

In a country where everyone strives for attention, it is better to be bankrupt than to be nothing.

A man without nobility cannot have kindliness; he can only have good nature.

A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.