Repentance is the attempt of the inner man to return home after wonderful night out

Nature's instructions are always slow, those of men are generally premature.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it

Faith is continuation of reason.

Ifanyone is not willing to accept your point of view, try to see his point of view.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

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

Imaginationis the eye of your soul.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant