A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Compromise,n. 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.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

A school should be the most beautiful place in every town- so beautiful tht the punishment for undutiful children should be that they be debarred from going to school the following day.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recepient, at least it benefits the bestower.