Frugality Is A Handsome Income.

Human Affairs Are So Obscure And Various That Nothing Can Be Clearly Known.

Given A Choice Between A Folly And A Sacrament, One Should Always Choose The Folly—because We Know A Sacrament Will Not Bring Us Closer To God And There’s Always The Chance That A Folly Will.

'tis An Easier Matter To Raise The Devil Than To Lay Him.

Everybody Hates A Prodigy, Detests An Old Head On Young Shoulders.

Out Of All Those Centuries The Greeks Can Count Seven Sages At The Most, And If Anyone Looks At Them More Closely I Swear He'll Not Find So Much As A Half-wise Man Or Even A Third Of A Wise Man Among Them.