No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

One must be a little foolish if one does not want to be even more stupid.

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.