Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
Man isn't a fool for his ignorance, but rather for believing things that are wrong.
Society is composed of slow Christians and wide-awake sinners.
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.
When I see a man of shallow understanding extravagantly clothed, I feel sorry - for the clothes.
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.