Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in which to sojourn, not to abide.

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.