Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.