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.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited: He must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

The greatest prayer is patience.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

How should the lamb negotiate with the lion.

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

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

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.