Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.