As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

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

He who truly knows has no occasion to shout

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.