Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Aquarrel is like buttermilk: once it's out of the churn, the more you shakeit, the more sour it grows.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

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

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.