‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Historians are gossips who tease the dead

He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.