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

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

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

He that is unkind to his own will not be kind to others.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

Conflictbuilds character. Crisis defines it.

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

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

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Faith is continuation of reason.