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.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

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 child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

The deeper the waters are, the more still they run.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Inbusiness, you don't get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

When the defects of others are percieved with so much clarity, it is because one possesses with oneself.