He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

'Why don't you step out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini?'

The wound is for you, but the pain is for me.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by common hatred of it's neighbours.

There is no such thing as truth.

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.

Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances.

It is strange so great a statesman should Be so sublime a poet.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.

Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.

Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.

The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the question, and the country be left to honest European guidance.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

Feast of All Souls To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see It through a little cranny.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Every skilled person is to be believed with reference to his own art.