I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

Never let your schooling interfere with your education.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.