Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Conscience is the frame of character, love is the covering for it.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength andpotency to accomplish something. It is the vital energy to make choices anddecisions. It also includes the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habitsand to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

Onlyfree men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedomand mine cannot be separated.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.