If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.

Delicacy in woman is strength.

Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four."