He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

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.

If you want to do something better, do it with profound love.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody it saves so much trouble

Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more.

Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion.

The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

People don't like railroad tracks near them? We'll see how they feel when the percentage of U.S. citizens who can afford to drive a car goes way down, as it will.

Two steps behind her, I say her name. "Skye.

Once you have tasted meditation, it is impossible for you to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable.

There is tremendous life and personality in a name. It should be at least as agonized over as any character trait.