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.

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and alwaysa clever thing to say.

Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

In art, as in love, instinct is enogh.

Melancholy is the joy of being said.

Our distrust is very expensive.

We cannot all be great but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.

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

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.