Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Keep a secret; its you slave. Tell it, and it's your master.

DonÆt let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was

Buying ischeaper than asking.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.