The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.