Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

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

Throughconflict we get to unity.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.