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

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

If all those who speak would weigh their words, how light air would be!

Thework will teach you how to do it.

Nations get as good or as bad a government as they deserve.

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

Becausewe focused on the snake, we missed the scorpion.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves.

Takeyour life into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!