“Justice is the truth in action.”

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Ask the young. They know everything.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Never cut what you can untie.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.