The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

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

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

It's better to let someone think you are an Idiot than to open your mouth and prove it.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.

All that is sometimes needed to make you content with you lot is a bad dream.

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

Dig a well before you are thirsty.

Let uswork without disputing. It is the only way to render life tolerable.

The first duty of love is to listen.

First-rate men employ first-rate men; second-rate men employ third-rate men.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.