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

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

The principle of equal protection is a positive concept implying equality of treatment in equal circumstances.

To teach isto learn twice.

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.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Renown and repose do not go together.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.