We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.