A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.

Two and two make four. Nature doesn't ask your advice. She isn't interested in your preferences or whether or not you approve of her laws. You must accept nature as she is with all the consequences that that implies.

Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.