It's more shameful to mistrust one's friends than to be deceived by them.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flow hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

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 property of power is to protect.

If you ain't never pick up the sword,you ain't never have to worry about fallin' on it.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

If power is for sale, sell your mother to buy it. You canalways buy her back again.

Imagination grows by excercise and in more powerful in the mature rather than in the young.

Compromise,n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.

Man show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.