Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away our selves.

God’s grace is our greatest need.

There is no reason for you to ever stop walking with faith, because you are amazingly built to win regardless of how tough or rough your challenges are.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

The last story: God is everything, God is good.

Even if you're the greatest of all time, people are not just going to give it to you. It's a great lesson.

Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.

While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future

I miss him as soon as he goes. When he isn't with me, I think I made him up.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.