The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

Believing that soom good can be derived from every event is a better preposition than that everything happens for the best, which is assuredly does not.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and a blind can read.

Example is better than following it.

A man of great common sense and good taste-meaning there a man without originality or moral courage.

Everyoneis wise until he speaks.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Whenthere is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

There isno squabbling so violent as that between people who accepted an ideayesterday and those who will accept the same idea tomorrow.