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.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.