Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.

Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.