I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Poverty is a virtue which one can teach oneself.

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

Let us not unlearn what we have already learned

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.

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.