It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Prayer changes things by changing people.

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

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

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fire actions than in the non-preformance of base ones.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.