Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The art of life is the avoiding of pain.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

Suspicion begets suspicion.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Have adialogue between the two opposing parts and you will find that they alwaysstart out fighting each other until we come to an appreciation of difference... a oneness and integration of the two opposingforces. Then the civil war is finished, and your e

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.