It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

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

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

When a man meets his mates society begins.

If speakingis silver, then listening is gold.

Therecan be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. Hisinstinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, hemost illogically kicks up a row.

Every age thinks its battle the most important of all.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

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