If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.

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

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

If Ishould ever be captured, I want no negotiation—and if I should request anegotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier tobe sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

To do what others cannot do is talent. To do what talent cannot do is genius.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

Honesty once pawned is never redeemed.