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

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

Silence is the wit of fools.

What we call strategy is mainly just crossing rivers on bridges and passing mountains though cols.

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.