I'm not a lukewarm European. I know that the German-French friendship is indispensable, no matter who the countries' leaders are.
It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.
Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.
We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one.
There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!
Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be.
Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.
Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn.
I'm searching for a shred of humanity in that shriveled tangle of arteries you call a heart.
States organized for war will make war as surely as hens will lay eggs.
A sturdy lad from New Hampshire or Vermont who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school,preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not "studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but lives already.