He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.

Waste no time with revolutions that do not remove the causes of your complaints but simply change the faces of those in charge.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Keep your eye fixed not so much on what they [people] ought in reason to do, as on what they are likely to do based on their disposition and habits.

By numberless examples it will evidently appear that human affairs are as subject to change and fluctuation as the waters of the sea agitated by the winds.

There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

To give vent now and then to his feelings, whether of pleasure or discontent, is a great ease to a man's heart.

Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

And what would humans be without love?"RARE, said Death.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

Measure your life not by years but by adventures.

I thank God for an amazing life.

Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.

All she could see was her demise and it called out a tempting ruse, offering a suffering less potent than what sickened the living.

We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it?

God is love and love is everywhere, however you need to see it or experience it, whatever name you have for it.

But what science cannot understand, it dismisses.

Why do Canadians like to do it doggie style? So they can both keep watching the hockey game