Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

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

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

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.