Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
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
Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.
All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.
Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.