No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.