"Experience is a good school, but the fees are high."

"Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess."

"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid."

"The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin."

"He only profits from praise who values criticism."

"Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son m'etier (God will forgive me. It's his profession)"

"Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and three thirds, more or less, poltroons."

"Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes."

"You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old."

"We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life."

"Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures."

"Parades should be classed as a nuisance and participants should be subject to a term in prison."