Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

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

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

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

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.