Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

Beon a horse when you go in search of a better one.

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

The ability to speak eloquently is not to be confused with having something tosay.