"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't."
"When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it."
"Poets help us to love: that is their only function. And a fine use of their delightful vanity."
"It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion."
"There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion."
"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live."
"The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces."
"The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
"It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly."
"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent to me."
"Without the Utopias of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first city.... Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future."
"Time deals gently only with those who take it gently."
"To die for an idea is to set a rather high price upon conjecture."
"Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work."
"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."
"I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom."
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
"When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it."
"Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work."
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
"The rarest courage is the courage of thought."
"Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin."
"Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin."
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."