The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

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

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

The World is but, a school of inquiry.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Too little liberty brings stagnation, too much brings chaos.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

It seemedrather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, weoften suffer from a shortage of listeners.