Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
The family is the nucleus of civilization.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.