Enthusiasm is faith set on fire.

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

A man'sconversation is the mirror of his thoughts.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait untilthe deadline looms large.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Past time is only eviil at a distance.

Ourlives are not dependent on whether or not we have conflict. It is what we dowith conflict that makes the difference.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

In anyfree society, the conflict between social conformity and individual libertyis permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.