A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

Before youbuild a better mousetrap, make sure you have some mice out there.

Thefire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

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.

Expreince never helps us avoid doing something foolish; it merely prevents us from enjoying it.

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.

Thedifficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather toknow it.

Compromise,n. 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.