I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.