The power to do good is also the power to do harm.

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

Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Health and Cheerfulness mutually begets each other.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.