Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.
As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.
There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.