Eyes are more accurate witness than ears

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

A Leader is a dealer in hope.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.