The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

The Truly free man is one who know how to decline an invitation without giving an excuse.

Anyone whoconducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

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

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

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supportingyou; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Whenangry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry a hundred.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.