No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

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.

The most irascible person is most likely to become apathetic in dangerous situations.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

When receiving an order, many servants repeat their "yes" numerous times, especially the lazy ones.

There is one privilege we'll never lose; currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.