The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.

Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes himself get good things by jealousy, while the other does not allow his neighbour to have them through envy.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.