WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

Long-rangeplanning works best in the short term.

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

Happinessis the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a madand lamentable experiment.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.