People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

I prefer the wisdom of the uneducated to the folly of the loquacious.

Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

There is no opinion so stupid that it can't be expressed by some philosopher.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.