It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.

Malice drinketh its own poison.

Snap judgment has a way of becoming unfastened.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

Grantgraciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannotconquer.

Bekind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Whilewe consider when to begin, it becomes too late.

Whenevertwo people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he seeshimself, each man as the other sees him, and each man as he really is.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

We arejudged by what we finish, not what we start.

If you truly want honesty, don't ask questions you don't really want the answer to.

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