The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.

All thingsat first appear difficult.

You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

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

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Honesty and Wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense !

Teaching may contribute to certain kinds of learning under certain circumstances.

All your fingernails grow with no convenient speed except broken one.

Necessitynever made a good bargain.

He whotalks incessantly, talks nonsense.