"The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal ..." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.