If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

I do not drink more than a sponge.

According to true military art, one should never push one's enemy to the point of despair, because such a state multiplies his strength and increases his courage which had already been crushed and failing, and because there is no better remedy for the health of beaten and overwhelmed men than the absence of all hope.

It is better to write of laughter than of tears, for laughter is the property of man.

I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it

I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.