COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labour

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

The pessimistsees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in everydifficulty.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.

A smallbenefit obtained is better than a great one in expectation.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

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