Gossip is that which no one claims to like-but everybody enjoys.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

The most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

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.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.