This searching and doubting and vacillating where nothing is clear but the arrogance of quest. I, too, had such noble ideas when I was still a boy.

A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.

In order to succeed in a profession, a person not only needs to have its good, but also its bad qualities. The former are the spirit, the latter is the body of the job.

What a pathetic creature is man! His senses are awakened by the hope for the very thing whose consummation puts him to sleep.

Servants honor their master by their service.

The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.

If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.