A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
I have only one ambition left: I should like to have a good epitaph.
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
I consider even a victorious war as an evil, from which statesmanship must endeavor to spare nations.
I have often regretted what I have eaten, but never what I have drunk.
Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers; he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent.