Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Peopledo not seem to talk for the sake of expressing their opinions, but tomaintain an opinion for the sake of talking.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

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

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.