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

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?

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.

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

It's amazing, the increase in grammatical errors in proportion to the level of hatred in the content of hate mail.

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

A good title is a work of a genius!

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

Symbiosis is a much higher reflection of intelligent life.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food.