In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

Perhaps the most embarrassing experience is being caught at a lie by a simpleton who sneers at our asinine cleverness.

Pity, but never love bestows kind words upon the slave.

Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.

The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.

Our age believed herself pregnant with auspicious progeny, but when her hour came, it turned out to be dropsy.