Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Justice is the right of the weakest.

Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same.

A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty.

You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.