Peacecan not be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Ourlonging for understandingis Eternal.

Optimists and pessimists have one fault in common: they are afraid of the truth.

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Thereverse side also has a reverse side.

One ofthe lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

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

A language is like living skin itself.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.