Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.