"Everyone is wise until he speaks."

"It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking."

"May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty."

"Give away all you like, but keep your bills and your temper."

"Praise youth and it will prosper."

"Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home."

"Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens."

"The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be."

"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."

"I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness."

"What if this weren't a hypothetical question?"