I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.

The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual.

Reasonable men are the best dictionaries of conversation.

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.