Self-trust is the first secret of success.

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

A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Whoever does not know the truth is ignorant, but the one who knows the truth but denies is a criminal

Peoplewho are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successfuland feel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation,or between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation…

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty,or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.