He who curbs his desires will always be rich enough.

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle.

No rose without a thorn.

He who can lick can bite.

The price spoils the pleasure.

Everything passes everything wears out everything breaks.

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.

Now I am going to fly toward the unknown with the wings of my love.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.

The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great

Thinking men and women the world over are beginning to realize that patriotism is too narrow and limited a conception to meet the necessities of our time.

Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles.

The most productive system of finance will always be the least burdensome.

Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.

Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad.

It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign.