Politicians are like ships; noisiest when lost in a fog.

Beware of the chap who reminds you that you can't take it with you . he'll try to take it with him.

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

Thecompromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it iscompromising.

Don't wrestlea pig in a mud hole. You both get all dirty, and the pig enjoys it.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.

It is easier to be brave from a safe distance.

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

Watching small men at work reconciles to the great.

Unselfishness is more paying,only people have not the patience to practice it.