I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

The weaknesses of many make leader possible.

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

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

The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do something to love, and something to hope for.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

As longas you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold himdown, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.