» Common sense is not so common.
» Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.
» Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
» He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.
» To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
» One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
» The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
» You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.
» Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.
» I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age.