Tact is good taste in action.

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

Tact is good taste in action.

It is easier to die for a cause than to live for it.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

... see well how it often befalls that to rise to the topmost degree would make it seem that the abyss is on high.

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.