Don'tbargain for fish which are still in the water.

One should never rub bottoms with a porcupine.

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

Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again

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

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

I'mjust preparing my impromptu remarks.

Commitmentin the face of conflict produces character.

Light is good in whatever lamp it may burn; even as a rose is beautiful in whatever garden it may bloom.