All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal?

It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.

What is the hardest task in the world? To think.

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

The highest virtue is always against the law.

Life is a festival only to the wise.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, and not goodness its root in wisdom.