I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
Tis by no means the least of life's rules: To let things alone.
The greatest fool is he who thinks he is not one and all others are.
No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the key of caution inside, on the other side of the keyhole.