People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

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

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

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

It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.