The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

When work is pleasure, life is joy.

A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

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

Themost important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how toget along with people.