A hoarseness caused by swallowing gold and silver.

All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.

Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different ...

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.

The fact speak for themselves.