The greatest blessing granted to mankind come by way of madness, which is a divine gift.

To use words and phrases in an easygoing manner without scrutinizing them too curiously is not in general a mark of ill-breeding. On the contrary, there is something low-bred in being too precise. But sometimes there is no help for it

An honest man is always a child.

When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.

Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul?

The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.

Wisdom is knowing how little we know.