When regard for truth has been broken down or evenslightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

Experience keeps a dear school, but tools will learn in no other.

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

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

A hero is no braver than anyone else; he is only brave minutes longer

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.