If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

We'reeyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.