I have mental joys and mental health,
Mental friends and mental wealth,
I've a wife that I read more

I have mental joys and mental health,
Mental friends and mental wealth,
I've a wife that I love and that loves me;
I've all but riches bodily.

Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends.

Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends.

Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever fortunes lavishly read more

Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates, and calls for more.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Party honesty is party expediency.

Party honesty is party expediency.

Man is by nature a civic animal.

Man is by nature a civic animal.

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low

Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim
insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other.

Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim
insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.