Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly infools.

Thewise man, even when he holds his tongue, says more than the fool when hespeaks.

Sometimesone pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Don'tstand by the water and long for fish; go home and weave a net.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

I’mwillin’ for any solution — religious, political. I’m not going to keepofferin’ to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. Itindicates a weakness on our part.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

There isnothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than anagreement.

Life is no brief candle- it's a splendid torch!

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

He whohurries cannot walk with dignity.

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