There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.