Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

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

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

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

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.