Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

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

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

The cliche that education never ends virtually ensures that it does'nt begin.

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

Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.