There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

History is the study of the world's crime

I am a little deaf, a little blind, a little important and on top of this are two or three abominable infirmities, but nothing destroys my hope.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it.