The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does become tainted.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. 

 No comment is also a comment.

 It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. 

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigar and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the interval between them.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation of individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.