Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

Whenyou lose, don't lose the lesson.

Given afair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high,not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whateverterms are offered us? No.

Thetruth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feelingdeeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in suchmoments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of ourruts and start searching for di

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Thecourts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputesbegins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternativemethods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Life, Like a child, laughs shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.