A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Well done is better than well said.

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

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.

Quarrelsend, but words once spoken never die.

What wesee depends mainly on what we look for.

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