Standingin the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by thetraffic from both sides.

Compromise.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.

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

The ultimate measured a man is not where he stands in marents of comfort, but whre he stands at times of challenge & contraversy.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Aclosed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

When a man meets his mates society begins.

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