False happiness renders men stern and proud and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible and that happiness is always shared.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.

The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.

The less men think, the more they talk.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

Prove it. I'll measure your words against your actions, and from that I will determine your worth.

What about the old standby of kicking a guy in the groin?" "Try to." Love to...

Your law always does more harm than crime, and your morality is a form of violence.

All the wealth of the world cannot be compared with the happiness of living together happily united.

Everything will be better in the morning. It always is.

She's not perfect, but she tries so hard for me. And I thank God, that she isn't, cause how boring that would be.

Because I grew up with this naive expectation of people doing right, I get shocked by every little violation.

Blindness separates us from things but deafness separates us from people.

Put your ego aside and play as a team.

It is better to know what to fear than to say 'no fear.'