Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

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

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

Faith is continuation of reason.

Nine times out of ten, we are disappointed in life because we don't ask enough of it.