Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

A roundegg can be made square according to how you cut it; words would be harshaccording to how you speak them.

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.

Laughter is shortest distance between two people.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

As we grow old...the beauty steals inwards.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.