I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

We owealmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

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.

Ifyou wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

The comforter's head never aches.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

It is a good reader that makes a good book.