Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Onemust talk little and listen much.