If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

If a million people say a foolish thing, is it still a foolish thing.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Never lend books – nobody ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are those which people have lent me.