The chief element of happiness is this: to want to be what you are.

Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior

He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

There is nothing I congratulate myself on more heartily than on never having joined a sect.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.