A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Listeningwell is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.

Ignorancedoesn't kill you, but it does make you sweat a lot.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

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