Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

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

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

God made time, but man made haste.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.

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