The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

The directuse of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employedonly by small children and large nations.

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

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

Theloftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.