All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

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

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

I willprepare and some day my chance will come.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

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.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

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

Win/winis an attitude, not an outcome.