The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. They charge interest, upon interest, and upon this again interest, so that the poor man loses everything that he owns.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Frugality is a handsome income.

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the hands of some dabbler in philosophy or literary addict.

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Man is to man either a god or a wolf.