Most people suspended their judgement till somebody else has expressed his own and then they respect it.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

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

Manners make the fortune of the ambitious youth.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Do not despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Personal responsibility is too fiscal accountability as lovemaking is to a gynaecological examination

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.