If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Accomplishmentof purpose is better than making a profit.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and wherepower predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of theother.

Thereis no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate whata thing is worth to 'you.'

Suffer fools gladly, they might be right.

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

The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Thereis no advancement to him who stands trembling because he cannot see the endfrom the beginning.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.