If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
My girlfriend sleeps in a queen-sized bed and I sleep in a court jester-sized bed.
War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought and could be.
Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.