All Sayings

I paint with my mind, not with my hands.

The greatest joy for me is to work. I have no other pleasure.

I like to spend money.

I have been in an agony of mind for some days past, and have at length determined to open my heart to you.

I could conquer the whole of them with fifty men, and govern them as I pleased.

The sea is vast and full of wonders.

All men are therefore equal, not in the sense that they are all alike, but in the sense that they all have the same rights and duties.

My best friend is he who rights my wrongs or reproaches my mistakes.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are only rather thoughtless: the old ones are corrupt.

The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

It is a great folly to be wise where ignorance is bliss.

I had the ambition to not only go farther than any man had been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.