The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Be yourself and speak your mind today, though it contradicts all you have said before.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Man wonders over the restless Sea........ the flowing waters...... the sight of the sky....... and forgets that as all wonders, man him self is the mast wonderful.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

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

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.