...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.

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

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Frugality is a handsome income.

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.