Failure can be bought on easy terms; success must be paid for in advance

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.

When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.

Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.