Have not I myself known five hundred living soldiers sabred into crows' meat for a piece of glazed cotton, which they call their flag; which had you sold it at any market-cross, would not have brought above three groschen?

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Evil and good are everywhere, like shadow and substance; inseparable (for men) yet not hostile, only opposed.

A noble book! all men's book!

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.