Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Knowlege is two-fold, and consists not only an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is faise

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.