A language is like living skin itself.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

Dealwith the faults of others as gently as with your own.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

The difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

A good listeneris not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.