To understand everything is to forgive everything.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

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.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.