We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.