"Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom"

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves"

"Buildings should serve people, not the other way around"

"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"

"Borders? I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people"

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded"

"People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows"

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course"

"First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people"