The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

A bad workman never gets a good tool.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the result of chance and temperament.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

We knowwhat happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.

Some People strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

The spokenword belongs half to him who speaks, and half to him who listens.