Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

A man's ruin lies in his tongue.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Difficultiesare meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong byconflict.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Politeness is the art of selecting among one's real thoughts.

Ability is poor men's wealth