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

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

There is no knowledge that is not power.

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

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

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

There is a foolish corner in the brain of wisest man.