There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.
Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
To know nothing is the happiest life.
Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed.
In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Your library is your paradise.
Prevention is better than cure.
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
