One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.