"The instruction we have received, the example we have seen, the books we have read, the conversations we have had, all these make us what we are."

"The Holy Roman Empire is neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."

"The world is a old stage, and we are the actors."

"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause."

"Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives, and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the times."