Cheat me in the price but not in the goods i purchase.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

In themiddle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

A lifemaking mistakes is not only more honorable, butmore useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

All marriedcouples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of makinglove. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Good battleis healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle of equalpartnership.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

The compromisewill always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.