A miserand a liar bargain quickly.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.

Imagination is useful as long as it remains practical.

Could agreater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’seyes for an instant?

Buyingis cheaper than asking.

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is god-like.

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.

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

Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

Welearn little from victory, much from defeat.