If Ihad six hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend the first hour sharpening the ax.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

The present is never a happy state to any being

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

He who is overcautious will accomplish little.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

It isimpossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Astupid act entails doing the work twice over.