Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

The hardeststep is over the threshold.

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

Much learning does not teach understanding.

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

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

The man who says he's too old to learn new tricks probably always was.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

If wecannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity.

As long as there is life there is danger.

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

If your mouth turns into a knife, it will cut off yourlips.