Onemight as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as totry to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Badplanning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

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

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

An artist is only a very small part of the universe and should receive no more attention than any other thing on earth which provides us with beauty, happiness and plenty

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

Malice drinketh its own poison.