Live dangerously and you live right.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

The people rate strength before everything.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace.