Talent develops in quiet places, Character in the full current of human life.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatsoever that it is not utterly absurd.
Cold hands, warm heart.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Four be the things I'd been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?