The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?