The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in

When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.

A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.

Most people eat as if they were fattening themselves for market.

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.