What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.

No labor is hopeless.