To beprepared is half the victory.

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

Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

We often pardon those who bore us, we cannot pardon those whom we bore.

Nothing is greater impediment to being on good terms with other than being ill at ease with yourself.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

A newbroom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows the corners.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.