Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

Discord gives a relish to concord.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

God has created the world in play.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations, is really an uncreative mind.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.