“Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.”

Flying without feathers is not easy: my wings have no feathers.

There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate’er we do.

For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law.

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.

It is a tiresome way of speaking, when you should despatch the business, to beat about the bush.

Know not what you know, and see not what you see.

Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

Wine is a cunning wrestler.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

He who dies for virtue does not perish.

Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.

Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend.

Never speak ill of an absent friend.

Consider the little mouse, how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts its life to one hole only.

The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

It is … impossible to keep one’s excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted.

One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.

Who will look out for you if you do the right thing.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.