Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic.
In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.