Nothing so wonderfully concentrates the mind as theprospect of a hanging.

Don't be took quick to belive anything you read.

One of the function of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables himto do easily some feat impossible to any other.

Onehour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict girdingup its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

COURAGE IS THE FLEEING FORWARD.