Outside noisy, inside empty.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

We areall inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others, by their acts.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

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

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

If at first you do succeed, try, try not to be a bore

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