Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.
Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
Examples is more forcible than precept.
People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.