The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors.

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.

Theology is to religion what poisons are to food.

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.