Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

For greed, all nature is too little.

Man is a reasoning Animal.

The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.

The Germans, a race eager for war.

The great pilot can sail even when his canvass is rent.