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The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, char

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.