Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

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

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

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.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola