Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

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

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

When your work speaks for itself,don't interrupt.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.