Compromiseis never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and theterror of a coward.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

Success is often the result of taking a mis-step in the right direction.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Each time we read, a seed is sown for the future.

Never play cat and mouse games if you are a mouse.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Thepeople to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagreewith you and are too cowardly to let you know.

To like and dislike the same thing, that is, indeed, friendship.

The oldbelieve everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young knoweverything.

God made time, but man made haste.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him