Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Thereis no squabbling so violent as that between peoplewho accepted an idea yesterday and those who will accept the same ideatomorrow.

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

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Nevermistake silence for agreement.

God made time, but man made haste.

Onemust talk little and listen much.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.