It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

It is the act of a bad man to deceive by falsehood.

An old man with something of the youth in him, may feel young in mind and heart only.