Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.
Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite
Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.
Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.
Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.