Oppositesattract and then can't stand each other.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Not work, but the thought that he must work is what makes the lazy man tired.

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

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

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