The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

Every one should be his own physician. We ought to assist, and not to force nature. Eat with moderation...Nothing is good for the body but what we can digest. What medicine can procure digestion? Exercise. What will recruit strength? Sleep.

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.