A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

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

To teach isto learn twice.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Don't consideryour reputation and you may do anything you like.

Ittakes time to save time.