 Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. |
| Privilege is the greatest enemy of right. |
| None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones. |
| Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. |
| Those who understand only what can be explained understand very little. |
| Authors from whom others steal should not complain, but rejoice. Where there is no game there are no poachers. |
| We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. |
| We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. |
| Imaginary evils are incurable. |
| The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered. |
| Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one. |
| What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. |
| Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good. |
| Conquer, but don't triumph. |
| If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty. |
| To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible. |
| Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right. |
| Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. |
| So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. |
| In youth we learn; in age we understand. |
