We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Voilence is a Just when kindness is vain

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

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

A quiettongue shows a wise head.