It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

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

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

God: personified incomprehensibility.

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

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.