If you don't know where you're going, you'll end upsomewhere else.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Soremarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises those that court himand admires whoever will not bend before him.

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

No onewould talk much in society; if he knew how often he misunderstands others.

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Fate chooses our relatives, We choose our friends.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Neveranswer a letter while you are angry.