Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than less to lerated.

Why don'tyou want to do what you know you should do? The reason you don't is thatyou're in conflict with yourself.

Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.

Theshallower the brook, the more it babbles.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.

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

I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.

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

Anempty sack cannot stand up.

Trust no one unless you have eaten much salt with him.

A lie has no leg, but a scandel has wings

The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may e a theatrical "encore"