It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

A peace which depends upon fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads just after one year afterwards.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

Being virtuous is no feat once temptation ceases.

A teacher as a person is more important than a teacher as a technician. What he is has more effect than anything he does.

I give myself,sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Ifthere is any great secret of success in life, it lies in the ability to putyourself in the other person’s place and to see things from his point of view as well as your own.

Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.

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

The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.