There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

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

No manever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greaterto himself .

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.