Makesure you leave some fat for the other side.

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

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

God made time, but man made haste.

No nation is so poor that it cannot afford to gie free speech

Drown not thyself to save a drowning man

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, willnot be given up without a struggle.

Mirrors should be able to think before reflecting the images.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

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

The tormentof human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that theself is in prison, its vital force and ‘mangled mind’ leaking away in lonely,wasteful self-conflict.

The merit belongs to begineer; should his successor do even more better.