It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

And obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigour and stability.

Excellent memories are often coupled with feeble judgments.

Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible.

The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould

Who ever saw a doctor use the prescription of his colleague without cutting out or adding something?