People loan their trust, they don't give it.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Conflictis the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. Itinstigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplikepassivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they getinto a position of power, corrupt power.

Don'tthrow out the baby with the bath water.

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such,the path of error is the path of truth.

History repeats itself. that's one of the things wrong with history

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.