I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

WheneverI hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried onhim personally.

Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness.

When you choose the lesses of two evils always remember there is still an evil.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

Whenyou cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of actionyou should take choose the bolder.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but bystriking true.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

When makinga decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous toconsider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choiceof a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious,from somewhere within ou

If you climb up a tree, you must climb down the same tree.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.