The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

History is the zoology of the human race.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

A woman's passion is not the measure of a man's love.

Unity is a beast in itself.

With God, a mountain is only a road waiting to happen.

I generally will answer any question about anything.

If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

What rivalry? I win all the matches.

Experience has shown that science frequently develops most fruitfully once we learn to examine the things that seem the simplest, instead of those that seem the most mysterious.

If there is one thing in this planet that has the power to bind people it is soccer.

I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.