Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
"I have been Foolish and Deluded," said he, "and I am a Bear of No Brain at All."
If I plant a honeycomb outside my house, then it will grow up into a beehive.
These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by the scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.
The boy cried "Wolf, wolf!" and the villagers came out to help him.
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing.
Men are foolish, are they not, Mademoiselle? To eat, to drink, to breathe the good air, it is a very pleasant thing, Mademoiselle. One is foolish to leave all that simply because one has no money — or because the heart aches. L´amour, it causes many fatalities, does it not?