Genius is a long impatience.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

Changemeans movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

Loving without dreaming is like going to Venice without riding in a gondola

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.