In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.

Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.