While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid
Silence is the essential condition of happiness.
Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.
I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!