We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want totest a man's character, give him power.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

It is better to trust and sometimes be disappointed thanto be forever mistrusting and be right occasionally.

Better ask ten times than go astray once.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It'snatural.

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