Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

Compared to the unleashed forces of warfare and of faith, Mount Vesuvius was kinder to the legacy of antiquity.

It became a weekend of reading, of trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me.

I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.

All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.

Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.

People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one.