The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

Every man is wanted; and no man is wanted much.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

The hearthas arguments with which the logic of mind is not acquainted.

It iswith our brothers and sisters that we learn to love, share, negotiate, startand end fights, hurt others, and save face. The basis of healthy (orunhealthy) connections in adulthood is cast during childhood.