Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.

One mind is enough for a thousand hands.

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

You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

All is born of water; all is sustained by water.

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.