One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.

If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries," I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

Keep running after a dog and he will never bite you.

He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.