“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
“Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction
“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create
“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it
“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite
“The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected