Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Allthings are ready, if our minds be so.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.