No Man Profiteth But By The Loss

One Man May Have Some Special Knowledge At First-hand About The Character Of A River Or A Spring, Who Otherwise Knows Only What Everyone Else Knows. Yet To Give Currency To This Shred Of Information, He Will Undertake To Write On The Whole Science Of Physics. From This Fault Many Great Troubles Spring.

As Soon As Women Become Ours We Are No Longer Theirs.

A Man Is Not Hurt So Much By What Happens, As By His Opinion Of What Happens.

Speech Belongs Half To The Speaker, Half To The Listener. The Latter Must Prepare To Receive It According To The Motion It Takes.

There Is No Greater Enemy To Those Who Would Please Than Expectation.