We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

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

I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.

Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.