Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

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

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.