The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness. Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, so that what we believe we disbelieve, and cannot rid ourselves of what we condemn. Solemnity is the shield of idiots.
Useless laws weaken necessary laws.
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length. The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is listen. A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. The wrong way always seems the more reasonable. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.