Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

You could forgive an enemy. It is harder to forgive yourself.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

Patience is the art of hoping.

We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

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