As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands or commanding wives.
To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girl friends.
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
There was never a good war, or a bad peace.
