It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
The present age, for all its cosmopolitan hustle, is curiously suburban in spirit.
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.