Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Insteadof suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make thisconflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflictis resolved.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Compromise,n. 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.