A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Whenanger comes, wisdom goes.

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Muchtalking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune.The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, flyfreely about.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Humality is a strange thing. The minute you think you've got it, you've lost it.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.