There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.

I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

Coffee renders many foolish people temporarily capable of wise actions