It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

Be slow of tounge and quick of eye.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. woman can hold him. the wind must blow him away.

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.

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

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

Never answer a letter while you are angry.

Action may not always bring Happiness, but there is no happiness without Action.

Nothing do I regret more in my student life that thay my teachers were not my friends