The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.

Whateverfailures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies Ihave witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of actionwithout thought.

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Example is better than following it.

Theterm up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fasthas no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition, such termshave no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a veryparticular situation... most of our language about the

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Don't let life discourage your, everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.