The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Night is the blotting paper of many sorrows.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

If anenemy is annoying you by playing well, consider adopting his strategy.

Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach.

If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

An artist is a cut above the critic, for the artist is writing something which will move the critic. The critic is writing something which will move everybody but the artist

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

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

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.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.