I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.

I'd gladly do without a valet. I'm never so well treated as when I'm without a valet.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.

In this mortal life, nothing is blessed throughout.

I build only living stones--men.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.