The great despisers are the greater reverers.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Labour with what zeal we will. Something still remains undone.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

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

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

To err is human; to forgive is divine pathway

Onemust talk little and listen much.