Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

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

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.