Fools usually know best that which the wise despair of ever comprehending.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.

Wit is an intermittent fountain; kindness is a perennial spring.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

All that is due to us will be paid, although not perhaps by those to whom we have lent.

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!