Marriagemeans expectations and expectations mean conflict.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

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

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

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

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

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

Thework will teach you how to do it.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.