People who are at ease with their consciences always look happy.

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.

Friends! Let us try to help if we are worth anything at all!

One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.