Never answer a letter while you are angry.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Thosewho are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

Never[enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never yet saw an instance ofone of two disputants convincing the other by argument. I have seen many ontheir getting warm, becoming rude and shooting one another.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

A room without books is a body without soul

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

It'sgood to shut up sometimes.

Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.