All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

They know enough who know how to learn.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm seat.

A faithful friend is medicine of Life.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Any child who has parents who are interested in him and has a house full of books isin't poor.

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

I’mwilling for any solution religious, political. I’m not going to keepoffering to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.