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.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to loseliberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

Do notfind fault, find a remedy.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimelyinterchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Reformers are those who educate people to appreciate the things they need.

We own almostall our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.