Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous