“Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.”

“Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.”

“People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.”

“It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.”

“Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. ”

“The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.”

“When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.”