Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

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

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

The soul would have no rainbow, if the eyes had no tears.

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.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

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