Man is immortal, his salvation is hereafter, The state has no immortality, its salvation is now or never

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.

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

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Never write a letter and never destroy one.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face-at least to my taste-his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul.

Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

I let the scripts basically be my Bible.

In the word of no master am I bound to believe.

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

Americans aren't accepting of black humor, it's terrible.

Listen to people, gain advice and gain the respect of your fellow team-mates. Make sure you put in the hours and you'll have fun.