Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

A fly beforehis own eye is bigger than an elephant in the next field.

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

We gain freedom when we have paid full price for our right to live.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

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

All thingsat first appear difficult.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Youcan't shake hands with a clenched fist.