Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Golf is an expensive way of playing marbles.

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

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; Easy to govern, but impossible to enslave

Kindwords do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.