It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.

As for style of writing, if one has anything to say, it drops from him simply and directly, as a stone falls to the ground.

We slander the hyena; man is the fiercest and cruelest animal.

Priests and physicians should never look one another in the face. They have no common ground, nor is there any to mediate betweenthem. When the one comes, the other goes. They could not come together without laughter, or a significant silence, for the one's profession is a satire on the other's, and either's success would be the other's failure.

To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.