A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

Delicacy in woman is strength.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

As nations improve, so do their gods.

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

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

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.