Love truth, but pardon error.
Injustice in the end produces independence.
The ear is the avenue to the heart.
The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
People who can’t be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettynever give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est (Knowledge Itself Is Power)
He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think – yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.
Breed is stronger than pasture.
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. I say, It’s in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I’m a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That’s me.
If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
