When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?

Let us not unlearn what we have already learned

Blushing is the color of virtue.

We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.