We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world.

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

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.

Men argue. Nature acts.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.

In the matter of taxation, every privilege is an injustice.