Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.

God always looks after the fools and — and the United States.

I have found that nothing so deceives your adversaries as telling them the truth.

Revolutions in Prussia are started by kings, and since it is a revolution, it is better to start it ourselves than to suffer of it

Life has taught me to forgive much, but to seek forgiveness still more.

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.

Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.