Better hazard than always be in fear.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Ittakes time to save time.

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable

Nobody'sa natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hardto stay on top.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

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

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.