Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Of all the ways to make your fortune the quickest and the best is to make people see clearly how much is your success is in there interest

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

I'm nota combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict byraising the issues before I or others burn their boats.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

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