Chess is a game which reflects most honor on human wit.
Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.
All is but illusion and disaster.
"I have no more than twenty acres of ground," he replied, "the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want."
Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.