"By asking for the impossible we obtain the possible."

"If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot."

"The best armor is to keep out of range."

"By learning to obey, you will know how to command."

"Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box."

"He who begins many things finishes but few."

"Follow the grain in your own wood."

"Knowledge is expensive."

"There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity."

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

"As if there were safety in stupidity alone."

"I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should."