We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be either greater or smaller, richer or poorer.

Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and acrid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways.

The road to the heart is the ear

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

History is a pack of lies we play on the dead.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.