Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.

Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?