"You can not pluck roses without fear..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.”

“Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth is uniform and narrow; it constantly exists, and does not seem to require so much an active energy, as a passive aptitude of the soul in order to encounter it. But error is endlessly diversified; it has no reality, but is the pure and simple creation of the mind that invents it. In this field the soul has room enough to expand herself, to display all her boundless faculties, and all her beautiful and interesting extravagancies and absurdities.”

“A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false.”

“There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.”

“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”

“Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten.”

“Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.”

“He who eats alone chokes alone.”

“The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.”