It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

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

Alexander's last wrds: Bury my body, dont build any monument. Kip my hand outside,so dat d wrld knws,who won th wrld had noting in hand wen dyin.

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Compromise,n. 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.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.