To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

Most men die from the neck up at age twenty-five because they stop dreaming.

Two passions have powerful influence on the affairs of men: the love of power and the love of money.

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.