The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.
How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.
More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking.
The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.