Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.

The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

A proud bigot, who is vain enough to think that he can deceive even God by affected zeal, and throwing the veil of holiness over vices, damns all mankind by the word of his power.

Greatest fools are the most often satisfied.

It is the sin which we have not committed which seems the most monstrous.

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.