Don'tuse a lot where a little will do.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Can we do good to the world? In an absolute sense, no; in a relative sense, yes.

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's moretrue that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted byother things than power.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

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

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