If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.