The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

If youcould kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Remembernot only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficultstill, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust ofgiving counsel.

Whenevertwo good people argue over principles, they are both right.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Acreaking door hangs long on its hinges.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

People who do not believe in miracles are not realist.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.