If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of greatsculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

Ignorance is a bold, and knowledge reserved

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

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