The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.