Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

Don't give your advice before you are called upon.

Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. They charge interest, upon interest, and upon this again interest, so that the poor man loses everything that he owns.