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

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see thegood.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

Knowledge is of two kinds, we know a subject ourselves or we know where we can get information upon it.

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

Alwaysforgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so much.

Tranquility will roof a house, but discord can wear away the foundation of a city.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted intoenergy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that canmove the world.

A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor is a man perfected without trials.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.