Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

The law of nations is naturally founded on this principle, that different nations ought in time of peace to do one another all the good they can, and in time of war as little injury as possible, without prejudicing their real interests.