Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

You can't unscramble an egg.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

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

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

The first duty of love is to listen.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou maketh a new one.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.