When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

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.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

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

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Nothing has happend to you unless you make much of it.