If you are considering marriage, ask yourself one question: Will I still enjoy talking with her when I'm old?

The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise.

Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.

Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly.

You lovers of knowledge! So what have you done out of your love of knowledge up to now? Have you already stolen and murdered so as to know how a thief and a murderer feels?

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.