Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.

These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.