Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.