A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

The dragon-fly is dancing, - Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire Her light-blue, gauze-like, neat attire; They laud her blue complexion, And think her shape perfection.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.

What lies lurk in kisses.

But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. Lucky dogs! they already knew in their cradles the nouns ending in im. I on the contrary had to learn it by heart, in the sweat of my brow.

The propaganda of communism possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are simply hunger, envy, death.