Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

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

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Whenconflict becomes a win-lose contest in our minds, we immediately try to win.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.

The majority of mankind always has been and always will be composed of imbeciles.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.