A question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others, crazy?

On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

No mortal can keep a secret. If the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

You may turn into an archangel, a fool, or a criminal ? no one will see it. But when a button is missing?everyone sees that.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate...

You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in the order of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

Human history is in essence a history of ideas.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.