Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain isnot due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you havethe power to revoke at any moment.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

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

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

Many a gem of wisdom have gone unsaid, because someone lacked ability to express it.

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