He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

God has created the world in play.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Now-a-days women don't hire domestic help-they marry it.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.