Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.
It is not he who searches for praise who finds it.
The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.
Mutability is written upon all things.
Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.
Cats don't caress us-they caress themselves on us.