Caution is the daughter of circumspection, but she tends to outgrow her mother.

In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.

The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it.

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.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

Nothing genuinely historical was ever lost in this country. For this reason we have two ruling parties: villains and fools.