Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.

I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.