Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

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A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Nothing is a permanent except change.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.