Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

It is throughcooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will bederived.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

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

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

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.