There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others.

As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.

People would not long remain in social life if they were not the dupes of each other.

Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.