Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.