A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciouness varying with readers.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

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

Evena sheet of paper has two sides.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Stoppingat third base adds no more to the score than striking out.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.