 Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders. |
| 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. |
| It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. |
| Humility is truth. |
| By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him. |
| Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. |
| Prevention is better than cure. |
| The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death. Topics: Childhood |
| It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence. |
| Fools are without number. |
| A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. |
| It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide. |
| Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another. |
| Man is to man either a god or a wolf. |
| Don't give your advice before you are called upon. |
| When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes. |
| Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly. |
| Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed. |
| 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. |
| If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen. |
