Today is, after all, today, but yesterday is of the same substance as tomorrow.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.

Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.

The real genres: good and bad.