Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Whenpeople say women can’t be trusted because they cycle every month, myresponse is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed tonegotiate peace treaties in the evening.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Genius is a long impatience.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

An honest man's word is as good as his bond.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.