The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Youcan't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.

Miracles enables us to judge of doctrine and doctrine enable us to judge of miracles.

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

You can't go very far if you don't begin very near.

Anyonewho conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence,just his memory.

Hearme, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun nowstands, I will fight no more forever.

Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell peopleyou are, you aren't.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

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

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.