The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Our lives teach us who we are.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.