To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have a deference for others governs our manners.

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.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

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.

The present is never a happy state to any being

Two prisonerswhose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. Thewall is the thing which separates them but is also their means ofcommunication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.