It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

A fool is a person who guesses and gets it wrong, a clever man is one who guesses, regardless of time period, and gets it right.

Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

A good imitation is the most perfect originality

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.