The World is but, a school of inquiry.

Reasonguides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false,and passion, good or bad.

Silence, along with modesty, is a great aid to conversation.

Wisdom is what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' Thismethod works every time.

Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.

Men are cruel, but man is kind.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

The greatest prayer is patience.

Thenumber one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintaintheir self-esteem.

The good rain like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

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