A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.