It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Love is an act of faith and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

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.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

If youcan make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believeyou.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.