Ivory may not be so white as snow, but the whole Arctic continent does not make ivory black.

Fairy tales are more than true.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

Only poor men get hanged.

If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.

The rolling stone rolls echoing from rock to rock; but the rolling stone is dead. The moss is silent because the moss is alive.

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.