If you can walk, you can run.
It is fraud to accept what you cannot repay.
Gain cannot be made without some other person’s loss.
An evil gain equals a loss.
It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?
The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.
There are men steady and wise whose body, words and mind are self-controlled. They are the men of supreme self-control.
How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!
He gets through too late who goes too fast.
Successful guilt is the bane of society.
He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.
What valor cannot win, flattery may.
Cruelty isn’t softened by tears; it feeds on them.
You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
A guilty conscience never feels secure.
Unless degree is preserved, the first place is safe for no one.
We should lay up in peace what we shall need in war.
Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.
Conversation is the image of the mind. As the man is, so is his talk.