Usually we trust that nature has a master plan. But what was it she expected us to do with tobacco?.

Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.

A learned man is a tank; a wiser man is a spring.

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

People who have little to do are excessive talkers.

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

I fear the financial crisis of 1998 may become the trade crisis of 1999.