All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. |
All things tend to corrupt perverted minds. |
An unjust peace is better than a just war. |
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error |
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated . . . |
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. |
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it |
As you have sown so shall you reap. |
Before beginning, prepare carefully |
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence |
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator |
But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more. |
By doubting we come at truth. |
Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually? |
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself. |