A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

It'snot the plan that is important, it's the planning.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.

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

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination

Nevermiss a good chance to shut up.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.