Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

Even knaves may be made good for something.

Since men cannot create new forces, but merely combine and control those which already exist, the only way in which they can preserve themselves is by uniting their separate powers in a combination strong enough to overcome any resistance, uniting them so that their powers are directed by a single motive and act in concert.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.