To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Trust resides squarely between faith and doubt.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Trust is difficult to define, but we know when it's presentand when it's not.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

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

Human beings are not perfectible. They are improvable.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.