Aperson whose heart is not content is like a snake which tries to swallow anelephant.

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

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

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

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.