A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

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

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

He who is unable to dance says the yard is stony.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

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

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.