Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

If you arepatient in a moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Thereare two sides to every question.

He whois unable to dance says the yard is stony.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

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

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

To pushadvantages too far is neither generous nor just.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.