The Germans, a race eager for war.

God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.

I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.

We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.

You roll my log, and I will roll yours.

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.

We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur