Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

They know enough who know how to learn.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

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.

Thepessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunityin every difficulty.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

We willbe known by the tracks we leave behind.