Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.