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

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

One of the difficult things to give away is kindness - is usually returned

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

Whenelephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

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

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.