If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

There are some centuries which - apart from everything else - in the art and other disciplines presume to remake everything because they know how to make nothing.

The world laughs at things it would really prefer to admire, and like Aesop's fox it criticizes things it covets.

We remember childhood as the fabulous years of our lives, and nations remember their childhood as fabulous years.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.