If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

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

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Reasonand emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between twoopposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifestsitself in the form of a feeling.

By being pleasant always and smiling, it takes you nearer to God; Nearer than any prayer.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't care. Momentum is wht it wants to gather.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour