Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

Of all thieves, fools are the worst; they rob you of time and temper.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.