You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

The Pursuit of perfection is the persuit of sweetness and light.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

He who asks questions cannot avoid the answers.

There is sweet joy that comes to us that comes to us after sorrow.

Any man's death diminishes me, because i am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never tend to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.