Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect some financial difficulties.

With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

To learn to read is to light a fire.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.