Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.