Past time is only eviil at a distance.

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important

Speech is of time; silence is of eternity.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

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

Honesty is like an icicle; if once it melts that is theend of it.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Talkingjaw-jaw is always better than war-war.

The present is never a happy state to any being

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

There arealways two forces warring against each other within us.