Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

Who is old enough to have learned from experience?

When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by the cows. Here they find manure and an open space for the first year at least, when they are not choked by grass or weeds. In this way, evidently, many of these clumps of barberries are commenced.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.