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

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establisha dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolutionin order to establish the dictatorship.

you cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiatives and independence.

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

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Wisdom requires that we pour a little oil of delicate courtesy on the wheels of friendship.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him