Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

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

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

There'sno need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Ignoring is not the same thing as being tolerant

Civilization, in a sly way, is a suspicion that the other fellow may be right.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.