Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to looknot only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't leads anywhere.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

Bythree methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest;second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is thebitterest.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous

Themore adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it isto make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that morepeople will make more plans in such areas.

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

Sometimes the man of action is the fellow who has just got both his feat in hot water.

The great despisers are the greater reverers.

Let no one, then think lightly of the world, lest he be despising himself unawares

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

It is easier to discover deficiencies in indivuduals, states and providence than to see their real import and value.