It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?

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

Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

Delicacy in woman is strength.