One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.

What sort of God would it be, who only pushed from without.