Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom.
So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.
Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.
A peace-mingling falsehood is preferable to a mischief-stirring truth.
Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!