Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Power never takes a back step only in the face of morepower.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.