It is a good reader that makes a good book.

Most ofour so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believingas we already do.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Speakwhen you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

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.

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

Superioty and inferiority are individual, not racial or national.

A man has no ears for that to which experience has given no access.