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

Outside noisy, inside empty.

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

It is atrick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed,or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Too late is the medicine prepared, when the disease has strengthened by long delay.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world: those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.

Thetorment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause,is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangledmind’ leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Better hazard than always be in fear.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.