Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.

Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.

Whohath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

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

God has created the world in play.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

You can't unscramble an egg.

Old fools are more foolish than you ones.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Love is the noblest frailty of the of the mind

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.