It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.

Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.

Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.