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

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.

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

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did andit never will.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.