My fathersaid: you must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let theother fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for alwaysmaking all the money, you won't have many deals.

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

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

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

There isnothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

You can't change people, but you can channel them your way.