You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

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

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

Whospreads, sows; Who listens, reaps.

Beware,as long as you live, of judging people of appearances.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare