Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

The secret of power is the knowledge that others are more cowardly than you are.

Nothing is lasting but change nothing perpetual but death.

Nothing endures except change nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]

Governments are the sails, the people the wind, the country is the ship and time is the sea.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

Women are most adorable when they are afraid that's why they frighten so easily.

To be original you must listen to the voice of your heart rather than the clamor of the world - and have the courage to teach publicly what you have learned. The source of all genius is sincerity men would be wiser if they were more moral.

Nought endures but change.

The difference between Liberty and liberties is as great as God and gods.

Ministers fall like buttered slices of bread: usually on their good side.