Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.

What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.