Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

Thedeeper the waters are, the more still they run.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Our distrust is very expensive.