A wise man has great power, and a man of knowledgeincreases strength.

Commonsense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Agrievance is most poignant when almost redressed.

By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Kind wordscan be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Whoever is winning the race will always seem to be invincible.

Negotiatingmeans getting the best of your opponent.

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

The possession of power over others in inherently destructiveboth to the possessor of the power and to those over whom it is exercised.

In loving, you lean on some one to hold him up.

When the eyes says one thing, and the tounge another, a practised man relise on the language of first.