The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Well done is better than well said.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

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

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

The Shortest distance between two jokes makess a perfect speech.

Prayrer changes things by changing people.

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