Compromise.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.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

... 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

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked.