Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.

Cats ask plainly for what they want.

Little men build up great ones, but the snow colossus soon melts; the good stand under the eye of God, and therefore stand.

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.