How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten
Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.
Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.
A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.
It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.