We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny.

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.