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

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.

Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.

The more you say, the less they remember.

In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.