No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.

Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.

Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.

Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.