A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

Beholdthe turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

A slyrabbit will have three openings to its den.

Thereis all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Nothing lays itself open to the change of exaggeration more than the language of naked truth.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Knowledge leads to unity, ignorance to diversity.