Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking

When aman says that he approves something in principle, it means he hasn't theslightest intention of putting it in practice.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

Like aball batted back and forth, a human being is batted by two forces within.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarilybased on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Whenyou plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. Youlook for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water,or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with ourfriends or our family,

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

Fourthings come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past life, and theneglected opportunity.