Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

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

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Few things help an individual more than to placeresponsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Nature gave women too much power; the law gives them too little.

The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

Measurement of life should be rather proportioned to the intensity of experience than it's actual length.

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.

An adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Nogarden is without its weeds.