What a man does, that he has. What has he to do with hope or fear? In himself is his might. Let him regard no good as solid but that which is in his nature, and which must grow out of him as long as he exists. The goods of fortune may come and go like summer leaves; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness.

Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

A man should give us a sense of mass.

The farmer after sacrificing pleasure, taste, freedom, thought, love, to his work, turns out often a bankrupt, like the merchant.This result might well seem astounding. All this drudgery, from cockcrowing to starlight, for all these years, to end in mortgages and the auctioneer's flag, and removing from bad to worse. It is time to have the thing looked into, and with a sifting criticism ascertained who is the fool.

You cannot institute, without peril of charlatanism.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

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