Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.

I welcome all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is commencing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

The really royal calling of the philosopher (as expressed by Alcuin the Anglo-Saxon): To correct what is wrong, and strengthen the right, and raise what is holy.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off.

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?