The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.

Compassion and shame come over one who considers how precarious is the origin of the proudest of living beings: often the smell of a lately extinguished lamp is enough to cause a miscarriage. And to think that from such a frail beginning a tyrant or butcher may be born! You who trust in your physical strength, who embrace the gifts of fortune and consider yourself not their ward but their son, you who have a domineering spirit, you who consider yourself a god as soon as success swells your breast, think how little could have destroyed you!

The only certainty is uncertainty

Our civilization depends largely on paper.

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.

A dear bargain is always disagreeable, particularly as it is a reflection upon the buyer's judgment.

There is always something new out of Africa.