Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
The best creed we can have is charity toward the creeds of others.
We mingle in society not so much to meet others as to escape ourselves.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.