Pleasant words are the food of love.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion oftrust can make trust.

What is well done is done soon enough.

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.

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

So longas a man is angry he cannot be in the right.

If an enemyis annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.