What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
Silence is the wit of fools.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of the museums of London, Paris, and Munich.
We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.