Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Embracingconflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration canlead to growth and fascination.

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.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

A person who talks about his Inferiors han't any.

History is the witness of the times, the light of truth.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.