To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.
In constitutional states, liberty is compensation for heavy taxes; in dictatorships, the subsititue is light taxes.