Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Every advantage has its tax

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Wherethe tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.