Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

Modesty is the clothing of talent.

Man must not check reason by tradition, but must check tradition by reason.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

When a man meets his mates society begins.

Thegreatest glory in living lies not in never falling,but in rising every time we fall.

Truth is strengthened by observation and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainity.

Habit: the shackles of the free

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

A large ocean liner was headed across the Atlantic fromPortsmouth to New York. As it neared its destination at night, a lookout onthe wing of the bridge reported, ‘Light, bearing on the starboardbow.’‘Is it steady or moving astern?’ the captain called out

Since God made us to be originals, why stoop to be a copy?

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.