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

The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.

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

We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

The contact of two epidermises.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

False modesty is the most decent of all lies.