If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.
If a clever man commits a folly, it is not a small one.
Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
History-writing is a way of getting rid of the past.
He is the happiest man who can set the end of his life in connection with the beginning.
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns so soon to hatred.
Great passions are hopeless diseases. That which could cure them is the first thing to make them really dangerous.
Generosity wins favour for every one, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
Fools and wise folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous.
First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.
Faith is private capital, kept in one’s own house. There are public savings-banks and loan-offices, which supply individuals in their day of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.
Every man hears only what he understands.