All Sayings

It is a fact well known to many, that persons who have had the Cow Pox, are for ever after secure from the infection of the Small Pox.

Nature can be conquered if we can but find her weak side.

It is not the eye that sees the light, but the mind that sees the light through the eye.

If a man will not be a fool, he must not be a dogmatist.

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.

I can not tell a lie. I did cut down the cherry tree.

I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.

I will make a difference between the obedient and the disobedient.

I like to talk to a man, not to a woman, because a man is always less troublesome.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

I almost had to wait.

My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.

The mind is like white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

I think, therefore I am.

The greater part of mankind are more governed by interest than by reason.

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

We live in the best of all possible worlds.