To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

EDUCATION BEGINS WITH LIFE.

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

True youth is a quality which is acquired only with age.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

There is a sweet joy that comes to us after sorrow.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Considerhow hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chanceyou have in trying to change others.

There are three ways of bearing ills of life: by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.