Do good to your friend to keep him, and to your enemy to make him your freind.

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

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

Themost important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silentchambers of the soul.

Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

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

The hero's tomb is the cradle of the people

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

Adversityis the foundation of virtue.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

A room without books is a body without soul

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.