All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

You'rein a much better position to talk with people when they approach you thanwhen you approach them.

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

To be preparedis half the victory.

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Buying ischeaper than asking.