Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.