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From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.

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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than war.

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In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.

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When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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Probably all laws are useless, for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

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I knew a man who gave up smoking, drinking, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

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Only a fool walks backwards into the future.

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She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

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And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

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To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

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