All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers.
Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.