Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.

Wishes are premonitions of abilities.