Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

To a valet no man is a hero.

On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.