You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you willlive in torment if you don't trust enough.

It is mark of a good man not to know how to do an injury.

Few things are harder to pus up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everyting... they just make the most of everything that comes along their way...

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational beingcould propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

When youcannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action youshould take choose the bolder.