Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

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.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Flatteryis the infantry of negotiation.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

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

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

It isgreed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.