The ability to laugh together is the essence of love.

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

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

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

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

If we shake hands with icy fingures, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

Those who trust us educate us.

The thoughts that come often unsought, and as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.