Democracy will break under the strain of apronstrings. It can exist only on trust.

Life only demands from you the strength you posses

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

You can't unscramble an egg.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

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

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Wordsare, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.