The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

A half-truth won for ourselves is worth more than a whole truth learned from others.

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

The present is never a happy state to any being

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Twobirds disputed about a kernel, when a third swooped down and carried it off.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

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

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

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