How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!

When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him.

To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.

A heart full of courage and cheerfulness needs a little danger from time to time, or the world gets unbearable.

Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.

The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing.

Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none.