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 Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty year later.

No onecan persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that canonly be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either byargument or emotional appeal.

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.