A round egg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harsh according to how you speak them.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

Thedifference between the right word and the almost right word is the differencebetween lightning and a lightning bug.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Failureto prepare is preparing to fail.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

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

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