Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice.
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
Despatch is taking time by the ears; hurry is taking it by the end of the tail.
Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.
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.