When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Ittakes time to save time.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

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