Don'tcut off your nose to spite your face.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Well done is better than well said.

It's whenyou're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Be your own judge and you will be happy.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.