It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him. |
Justice is the truth in action. |
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. |
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. |
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. |
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people |
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. |
Misery is almost always the result of thinking. |
Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another |
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy |
Never cut what you can untie. |
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader. |
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom |
Only choose in marriage a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man |
Ornaments were invented by modesty. |