God: personified incomprehensibility.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

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

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.

Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.

Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?