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

Learning must be had, but in the second place, as subsequent only to greater qualities.

When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry ahundred.

Consistencyrequires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

If you follow me, I may lead you straight to hell, but ifyou trust me, I will lead you back out again.

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

He whocannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.

Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Every man has the right to feel that "Because of me was the world created".

The true test of intelligence is not how much people know how to do, but how they behave when they don't know what to do.