I haveoften regretted my speech, never my silence.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

We areall faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised asimpossible situations.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

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

The first duty of love is to listen.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Myinterest is in the future because I'm going to be spending the rest of mylife there.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen