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

Constantrepetition carries conviction.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

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

you cannot establish sound security on borrowed money

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

Within-groupconflict is always personal and emotional even if it begins with impersonalissues.

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.

Bring ideas in and treat them royally,for one of them may be the king.

The hand of liberty is stronger than arms of power.

Another form of wastefulness is expenditure of words beyond the income of ideas.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace; how few yield any fruit and the fruit itself how rarely does it ripen!