Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Unless aman has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him lookridiculous.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

It isnot necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

One ofthe best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

He whocannot cut the bread evenly cannot get on well with people.

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.

You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your handand showing it to them!