One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.