It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

No doctor is a good doctor who has never been ill himself.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessonsof the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part ofthe knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be onewho knows that if you reserve the power not to

Thehardest step is over the threshold.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequnces. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

He approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say whatyou've got to say, and say it hot.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government