Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption.

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.