“It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.”

Still people are dangerous.

A hare is not caught with a drum.

If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

Habit, to which all of us are more or less slaves.

It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion.

We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

Let fools the studious despise, There’s nothing lost by being wise.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more.

The finest victory is to conquer one’s own heart.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

A grand comedy in one hundred different acts, On the stage of the universe.

He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.

Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.

I would travel with a suitcase full of diamonds and take them from point A to point B.

It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal – hardly inspiring – standards of political conduct.

Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.

I wish I could run this company myself’ — to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.

They don’t like the idea of having different points of view.

They don’t like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle.