The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance.

A state with defective laws will have defective morals.

Thegalleries are full of critics. They play no ball, they fight no fights. Theymake no mistakes because they attempt nothing. Down in the arena are thedoers. They make mistakes because they try many things. The man who makes nomistakes lacks boldness and

Differentfields, different grasshoppers; different seas, different fish.

Fortune makes a fool of him whom she favours too much

The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

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

It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to puttrust in ideas, and not in circumstances.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than him.

You gotto be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you mightnot get there.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.