Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

Thesearch for someone to blame is always successful.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

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

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.