A clever person turns great troubles into little ones andlittle ones into none at all.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Listening,not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

A caricature is always ture only for an instant.

Tofight fear, act. To increase fear wait, put off, postpone.

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

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

Almost all four faults are more pardonable than the methods we think up to hide them

Conduct is wise or foolish only in reference to its results.

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

There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language, an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

You don'thave to worry about being bit if the dog doesn't have any teeth. Success hasmade failures of many men.