No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.

There are men who are happy without knowing it.

Those who fear men like laws.

Men crowd into honorable careers without other vocation than their vanity, or at best their love of fame.

There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves.