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

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

Manmust evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge,aggression, and retaliation.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

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

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.