Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.

No man is the whole himself; his friends are the rest of him.

Between grief and nothing I will take Grief.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

A danger forseen is half avoided.