What is done for the children is doubly beneficial, since their success, obvious to everyone, educates the parents as well.

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the scissors of criticism he candivide.

No spoon has yet destroyed a mouth, but the knife of war cuts portions that are hard to swallow. Perhaps the big mouths of the privileged are able to cope with them, but they dull the teeth of the little people and ruin their stomachs.

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

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.