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 arebuilt for.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable; those who are movable; and those who move.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side

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

Thisduality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature asreason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the ‘conscious’mind and the ‘unconscious.’ There are moments in each of ourlives when our verbal-intellect sugges

Every advantage has its tax

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

A manneed never revenge himself; the body of his enemy will be brought to his owndoor.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

Happiness is the wondrous commodity, the more your give; the more you have.