Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

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

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.