Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.

One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.