Business is the salt of life.
An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
Ice-cream is exquisite – what a pity it isn’t illegal.
The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
It happened once that a youth and a maiden beheld each other in a public assembly for the first time
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
Any 20 year-old who isn’t a liberal doesn’t have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn’t a conservative doesn’t have a brain.
She was taken by surprise at quite how breathtaking the twinkle in her eyes was. She listened and watched attentively, magnetized. As butterflies danced on her lips, her own stomach felt butterflies.
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.
The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.