Our distrust is very expensive.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

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

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

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

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.