Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.

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