It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.

Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.