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

Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

Someone who is reluctant to say what he needs to say, often ends up doing so with an insolence whose crassness is proportionate tohis fear, once he gathers the necessary courage.

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

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

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.

The real genres: good and bad.