If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.

Pride divides the men, humility joins them.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Why do you wonder that globetrotting does not help you, seeing that you always take yourself with you? The reason that set you wandering is ever at your heels.

Go wherever the facts lead.

I know one thing, that I know nothing.