Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.