A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Nostrength within, no respect without.

Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.