Silenceis as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshownmarble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless powerwithout abusing it.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

True,Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate acompromise.

It is not the whip that makes man, but the lure of things that are worthy to be loved.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are veryhard, very liable to be broken.

To copy is to put an end to creativeness. Unless there is originality, you can do nothing.

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.