The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.

Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be counted, but when a healthy and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself in the muscles, and the very sinews become beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline.

To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.