Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

Glory is a poison that can only be taken in small doses.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not hethat you wrong but yourself.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the brick that others throw at him.

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

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.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

Man is born free, and everywhere is is in chains

One person with a belief is a social power equal to nintynine who have only interest.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.