Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

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

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude-roots that can be pulled up.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Takeadvantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think aboutwhat else it might be.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare