One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.
That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.
Advice is like snow — the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, “It might have been!”
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.