Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

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

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

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

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.