In every treaty, insert a clause which can easily be violated, so that the entire agreement can be broken in case the interests of the State make it expedient to do so.

I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]

One king, one law, one faith.

It is legal because I wish it.

Impatience for victory guarantees defeat

Only small minds want always to be right.

The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ?

First feelings are always the most natural.

People say they walk on the shoulders of giants. True, but have you ever walked like one?

Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest

We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

Dynamic benign neglect.

I love, and the world is mine!

Destruction is the work of an afternoon. Creation is the work of a lifetime.

The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

If the liberal arts do nothing else they provide engaging metaphors for the thinking they displace.

I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something and then when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.