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

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

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

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

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

There is no passion in life as intense as the desire to change someone else's draft.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state that cunning men pass for wise.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

Genius is a long impatience.

Thereare two sides to every question.

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

Laughteris the shortest distance between two people.