It is not the young people that degenerate they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

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.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Whosoever possesses a camera should never know boredom.

Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.

The agriculture taught at colleges between 1930 and 1980 has caused more damage on the face of the Earth than any other factor.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Please, I begged silently, please do not let my last moments on earth be me crammed into a tiny boat in the dark, surrounded by mechanical singing pirates.

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

As the Prussian historian Treitschke later complained, the proponents of free trade in Hamburg had 'in German fashion made out of necessity not just a virtue but a theory'.

We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes.

There is no greater mercy than to remind and inspire people to study the fear of God.