Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.