If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. -Will Rogers

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Letevery eye negotiate for itself, and trust no agent.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

When indoubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. If you are not in doubt, you may bekidding yourself.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

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