Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?
The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.
Europe extends to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond.
Every evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor.
Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.
Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.