If youare leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper.

Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

Who can say more than rich praise, that you alone are you?

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

The wicked are not always clever, nor are dictators always right.

Nobody everforgets where he buried the hatchet.

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

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

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not tomake a mess of life.