In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

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

It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.

Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the obscure love for me that has sprung up in your heart?

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.