Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

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

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Everything has it's beauty, but not every one sees it.

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

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

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

To know how to free oneself is nothing: the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.