With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

When we seek after wit, we discover only foolishness.

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.