By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

The warexisting between the senses and reason.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with thepurpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

Don'thate, it's too big a burden to bear.

If youare planning on doing business with someone again, don't be too tough in thenegotiations. If you're going to skin a cat, don't keep it as a house cat.

Don'twrestle a pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

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

Do notfind fault, find a remedy.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country