Only freemen can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom andmine cannot be separated.

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

The mostimportant things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

All the power that we exercise over others depends on thepower we exercise over ourselves.

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

Successdepends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sureto be failure.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

Nothingstrengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individualresponsibility.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

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

It is much easier to be a hero than a gentleman.