Mediocrity is a hand-rail.

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked upon because he is a fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.

For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

One more organ or one less in our body would give us a different intelligence. In fact, all the established laws as to why our body is a certain way would be different if our body were not that way.

There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.

Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.