Dig a well before you are thirsty.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Fanaticism is the false fire of an overheated mind.

The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in thesame sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.

There ward for always listening when you'd rather be talking is wisdom.

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things andI'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.

Allmarried couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art ofmaking love. Good battle is objective and honest never vicious or cruel. Goodbattle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principle ofequal partnership.

Jealousy arises from lack of Confidence, not in others, but in onself.

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

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that submerged truth sometimes comes to top.

Nature hasgiven men one tongue and two ears, that we may hear twice as much as wespeak.