Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Humour is a hole that lets the sawdust out of a stuffed shirt.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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

Compromise.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.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.

Work without faith is like at attempt to reach a bottom-less pit.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.