All bravery stands upon comparisons.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

If I giveyou an egg, and you give me an egg, we will each have one egg.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speakthe truth, and they never believe me.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

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

It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.