Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

A bad word whispered will echo a hundred miles.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.