Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.