Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

Tell meand I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'llunderstand.

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

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Only the educated are free.

A man without a smiling face must not open a shop.

Silenceis the ultimate weapon of power.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives Ideas have endurance without death.

Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

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

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.