People are governed by the head; a kind heart is of little value in chess.

Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.

There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.

The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.

Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

We take our colors, chameleon-like, from each other.