Ifpassion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Do not tell me the problem is a difficult one. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem

Contradictionshould awaken Attention, not Passion.

Thepeak efficiency of knowledge and strategy is to make conflict unnecessary.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

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

Freedom is not caprice, but room to enlarge

Power comes from sincere service

Hold a true friend with both your hands.

Thoroughnesscharacterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains.All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinitepainstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Bargainlike a gypsy, but pay like a gentleman.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it;to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.