Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

In lifeprepare for the hard and all you will encounter will be the required or easy.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Inspiration is apt to come only while one is working, waited for, it usually keeps waiting.

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

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

By tryingoften, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.