When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

The Jews are of all peoples the grosses, the most ferocious, the most fanatical, and the most absurd.