Speak whenyou are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Thetrouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought ofyet.

To believein something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

Hatred does not not cease by hatred; but only by rule; this is the eternal rule.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

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

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.