Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.

Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.