Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

Men are ready to suffer anything from others or from heaven itself, provided that, when it comes to words, they are untouched.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

A dictionary can embrace only a small part of the vast tapestry of a language.

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

The greater part of the people we assign to educate our sons we know for certain are not educated. Yet we do not doubt that they can give what they have not received, a thing which cannot be otherwise acquired.