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

No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .

What we seek we shall find, what we flee from flee from us.

Man's life would be wretched and confined if it were to missthe candid intimacy developed by mutual trust and esteem.

Conflictlies at the core of innovation.

The ultimate measured a man is not where he stands in marents of comfort, but whre he stands at times of challenge & contraversy.

The purpose of getting power is to be able to give itaway.

An individual without information can't takeresponsibility. An individual with information can't help but takeresponsibility.

I hold it to be a proof of great prudence for men toabstain from threats and insulting words toward an enemy, for neither ...diminishes the strength of the enemy; but the one makes him more cautious,and the other increases his hatred of you and makes him

One cannot be precise and still be pure.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

People who fight with fire usually end up with ashes.