A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

• At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.
• To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
• Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
• Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
• Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
• The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
• Beauty and folly are old companions.
• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
• Honesty is the best policy.
• Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.