History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.