It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.
It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.
In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
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.