If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him

Ialways cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think,well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a singlepolitical argument left.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take therest as it happens.

Thespirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come greatharmony.

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 difficultpart in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

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