I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us,that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

A Habit is a shirt made of iron.

To live is, in itself, avalue judgement. To breathe is to judge.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Am Inot destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

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

Habit: the shackles of the free

Negotiatingin the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties are more anxious to agreethan to disagree.

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out.

Thedeepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

A nation reveals itself not only by the men it honours, the men it remembers.