"The Germans are like women, you can..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.”

“My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.”

“It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.”

“Winston Churchill used to say that we, Americans, try every other option before we finally do the right thing. After everything else is exhausted we eventually do the right thing and I think that's true for Congress as well. And it's important for Americans to remember that politics has always been messy.”

“The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early discontents, I expect that a just, dispassionate and steady conduct, will at length rally to a proper system the great body of our country. Unequivocal in principle, reasonable in manner, we shall be able I hope to do a great deal of good to the cause of freedom & harmony.”

“India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.”

“Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.”

“The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills.”

“I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.”