It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

You canoutdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running insideyou.

A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold.

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

Somewherethere is a map of how it can be done.

Money is what things run into and people run out of

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?