“I hate paying taxes. But I love the civilization they give me”

“I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”

“For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.”

“Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. ”

“When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?”

“To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”

“The young man knows the rules but the old man knows the exceptions.”