Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

Language is a very difficult thing to put into words.

Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned.

A physician is an unfortunate gentleman who is every day required to perform a miracle; namely to reconcile health with intemperance.

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.