There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table.

Through your rags I see your vanity.

I am a fool, but I know I'm a fool and that makes me smarter than you.

Sometimes you have to let go to see if there was anything worth holding onto.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.