Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

Precaution is better than cure.