No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.