The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

The death of Lincoln was a disaster for Christendom. There was no man in the United States great enough to wear his boots and the bankers went anew to grab the riches. I fear that foreign bankers with their craftiness and tortuous tricks will entirely control the exuberant riches of America and use it to systematically corrupt civilization.

Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

Physicians still retain something of their priestly origin; they would gladly do what they forbid.

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.