A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

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

The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strainedlike the strings of an instrument.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

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

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.