WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, Beautiful old people are works of art.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Usesoft words and hard arguments.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.