The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

No one lies as much as the indignant do.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Weagree completely on everything, including the fact we don't see eye to eye.

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

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

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

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Our errors are steps on the way.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.