I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.

Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.

What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.