What Is Perfectly True Is Perfectly Witty.

Great And Glorious Events Which Dazzle The Beholder Are Represented By Politicians As The Outcome Of Grand Designs Whereas They Are Usually Products Of Temperaments And Passions.

Great Men's Honor Ought Always To Be Measured By The Methods They Made Use Of In Attaining It.

Men Are Not Only Prone To Forget Benefits; They Even Hate Those Who Have Obliged Them, And Cease To Hate Those Who Have Injured Them. The Necessity Of Revenging An Injury, Or Of Recompensing A Benefit Seems A Slavery To Which They Are Unwilling To Submit.

Many Men Are Contemptuous Of Riches; Few Can Give Them Away.

The Hunger For Applause Is The Source For All Conscious Literature And Heroism