Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

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

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Humoris the affectionate communication of insight.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

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

A room without books is a body without soul

To effectivelycommunicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceivethe world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication withothers.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.