The lust for power in dominating others inflames the heartmore than any other passion.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

You can not help men permanantly by doing for them what they could do for themselves

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

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

Words are like spears: Once they leave your lips they can never come back.

A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

What is well done is done soon enough.

No strength within, no respect without.