"The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction."

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

"What a splendid head, yet no brain."

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."

"Do not count your chickens before they are hatched."

"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"Democracy works. Against us."

"I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on."

"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."

"A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king."

"The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass."