Education is the chief defence of a Nation.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—andif I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that asign of duress.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to become what you would like to be.

Nothingso completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, thanstraightforward and simple integrity in another.

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

The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.

When you ask from a stranger that which is of interest only to yourself, always enclose a stamp

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.