Sciencecannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame thedebates about those conflicts.

Use softwords and hard arguments.

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

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

The art of writing is the art of restraint.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Our errors are steps on the way.

The rulers must be watched, not the ruled.

Only hethat has traveled the road knows where the holesare deep.

To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not so sure about being quiet.

It wasimpossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

To understand everything is to forgive everything.