Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

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

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.