What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.