Where is the mortal, who after a sojourn of twenty-five years in this world, could say: «I saw nothing but pleasant visions»?
Believe only in large companies, when going to fight.
Certain hopes are like delusive dreams, like the electric flash which attends thunder and illuminates but an instant.
To be willing, is to be able.
Many a man who complains that he cannot keep his nose above water, would find it easier if he did not so often keep it above spirits.