A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.

A goodlistener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

I have learned through bitter experience the one supremelesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy,even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can movethe world.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

A half truth is a whole lie.

It is long and hard and painful to create life; it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Two man looks out through the same bars: the one sees the mud, the one the stars.