Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, menof power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.

Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

Words should be scattered like seeds, no matter how small the seed may be, its it has one found favourable ground, it unfolds its strength.

He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a questionremains a fool forever.

When youhave to make a choice and you don't make it, that itself is a choice.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Treatpeople as if they were, what they ought to be andyou help them become what they are capable of being.

Life without the Courage is death for slavery.

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

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

It's notthe size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.