Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

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

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Liberty and democracy becomes unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.