A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Enthusiasm sees only the down payment.

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

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

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.

The ruler proclaims the good news himself; he sends the servants out to announce the bad news.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.