It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future.

The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

A person of intellect without energy added to it, is a failure.

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

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.

Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.