Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

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

Genius is a long impatience.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannothurt you.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.