Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used toprotect the innocent.

A danger forseen is half avoided.

You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Passionsare generally roused by great conflicts.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

Every advantage has its tax

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

Sweet is pleasure after pain

The laws of life are founded on necessity, its charms on the non-essentials.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.