Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Opportunists take now for an answer.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrputs the many.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

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

Greatideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

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 most successful man in the life is the man who has the best information.