When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

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

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

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

Anounce of mediation is worth a pound of arbitration and a ton of litigation!