The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.

Of all the weaknesses little men rail against, there is none that they are more apt to ridicule than the tendency to believe. And of all the signs of a corrupt heart and a feeble head, the tendency of incredulity is the surest. Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.

The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing