There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

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

You grow up the day you have first real laugh - at yourself

There are three faithful friends; and old wife, an old dog and ready money.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Arise, awake and stop not till the goal is reached.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

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

Theonly difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is the way inwhich we use them.

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.