war often breaks out when there is the most talk of peace.

It is a disgraceful thing to be ignorant.

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

Thicken your religion a little. It is evaporating altogether by being subtilized.

Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

True friendship is never serene.

there are some people who never acknowledge themselves in the wrong; God help them!