"You can't survive by sucking the juice from a wet mitten."

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting.

Too much of everything is just enough.

The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own.