Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.