Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

At times, it is better to keep your mouth shut and let people wonder if you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

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.

When trumpt sound today where wood you be! if you die today your JESUS has come! how could you give account of your life if JESUS meet you in your sinful life! repent now tomorrow might too late for you!

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

No pillow is as soft as clear conscience.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.