It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

You andyour spouse should consider the arguments you have, not as calamities in thehistory of your child’sdevelopment, but as opportunities for learning. Take the opportunity to teachyour children the art ofand value in negotiation, and to demonstrate you

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolutepowerlessness make you pure?

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.