Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples.
No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.