The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

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

You can be erudite with knowledge of others; you can be wise only with your wisdom.

Neversay more than is necessary.

Firstkeep the peace within yourself, then you can alsobring peace to others.

No one is rich enough to do without neighbour.

Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

Living is the art of getting used to what we did'nt expect.

The man with the new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

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

A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.