Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.