We do not err because the truth is difficult to see. We err because this is more comfortable

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Artists can color the sky red because they know its blue.those of us who are not artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we are stupid.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.

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

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.