History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.

The more you say, the less they remember.

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.