Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.