Nevercut what you can untie.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Sayingnothing... sometimes says the most.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Melancholy is the joy of being said.