Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

My own mind is the direct revelation which I have from God and far least liable to mistake in telling his will of any revelation.

Literature is eavesdropping.

I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.

Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.