Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

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

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

Whendealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic,but creatures of emotion.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

Onceyou consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things backthe way they are.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.