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

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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

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

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Thefibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings ofan instrument.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Ittakes time to save time.