you can not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

It isthrough cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes willbe derived.

True, Heavenprohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

Change meansmovement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of anonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasivefriction of conflict.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.