Consistencyis the hobgoblin of little minds.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was tht they escaped teething.

The desire for change is a sign of safety.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

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

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well.

Science has achieved more for the emancipation of masses than the wisdom of sages.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.