Fools rush in where fools have been before.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed is the means per excellence for developing the intellect.

Theconventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

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

It isdifficult to negotiate where neither will trust.

Whenmen and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons arealways different.

Thetime to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.

Sweet is pleasure after pain

In thefield of observation, chance favors only theprepared minds.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

What dowe live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.