The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.

In truth, knowledge is a great and very useful quality; those who despise it give evidence enough of their stupidity. Yet I do not set its value at that extreme measure that some attribute to it.

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.