What we call happiness is what we do not know.
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.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Silence is the wit of fools.
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.