We do what we can, and then make a theory to prove our performance the best.

We fly to beauty as an asylum from the terrors of finite nature.

The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between sincere people.

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?